The Americans, The Colonial Experience - Softcover
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The first book in a trilogy--and in many respects the best of the bunch--The Colonial Experience is an essential interpretation of how the habits of people who lived more than two centuries ago shaped the lives of modern Americans. Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continent shattered long-standing traditions and utopian fantasies with the hard demands of everyday life far from the sophisticated centers of European civilization: "Old categories were shaken up, and new situations revealed unsuspected uses for old knowledge," writes Boorstin. He starts with a series of penetrating essays on the Puritans of Massachusetts, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the philanthropists of Georgia, and the planters of Virginia, then tackles a set of diffuse topics that range from astronomy to language to medicine in fascinating vignettes.
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The Colonial Experience is must reading for anybody interested in the development of the American character. --John J. Miller
Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "A superb panorama of life in America from the first settlements on through the white hot days of the Revolution." - Bruce Lancaster, Saturday Review
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1958
- ISBN 10 0795305729
- ISBN 13 9780795305726
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages434
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AMERICANS The Colonial Experience
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ISBN 13: 9780795305726
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